Titlebook: Topic and Focus; Cross-Linguistic Per Chungmin Lee,Matthew Gordon,Daniel Büring Book 20071st edition Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2

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The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue,an utterance. for example, we are concerned with the extent to which a falling versus a falling-rising intonation at the end of an utterance or an extra tonal height on a specific word or phrase affects the way the utterance is interpreted..Information structure categories such as topic and focus ha

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Perceiving Focus,mpirical in nature, evidence for particular tonal distinctions is often solely based on acoustic analyses of fundamental frequency (F0) traces. However, if one wants to gain full insight into how intonation ‘functions’, such an approach is arguably incomplete. That is, a prosodic feature, as any oth

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The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers,-list readings like . and the focus patterns of answers to constituent questions – cannot be dealt with adequately within the framework of Alternative Semantics. In Krifka (to appear) I argue that Alternative Semantics also is problematic as a framework for focus semantics in general; in particular,

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,Prosody and Scope Interpretations of the Topic Marker ‘Wa’ in Japanese,ambrecht 1994, Hirst and Di Cristo 1998, Ladd 1998, and Steedman 2000; McCawley 1968, Poser 1984, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988, for Japanese in particular). Another well-known fact is that intonation can have an effect on semantic interpretation. for example, in German, different intonational patt

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Focus and Taiwanese Unchecked Tones,nd spectrograms generated from SVO sentences with different focus conditions. The four focus conditions included a broad focus condition with focus on the entire sentence, and three narrow focus conditions with narrow focus falling on the first, second, and third words. Results of the duration data

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Bengali Intonation Revisited: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis in which FOCUS Stress Prominence Drives FOCUS Phrasing,sis that the focusphonology interface in grammar is expressed as a relation between focus-marked syntactic constituents on the one hand, and prosodic stress prominence on the other. A strong form of the hypothesis, advocated in Truckenbrodt’s 1995 thesis and pursued here and in other recent work of

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Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation,ccounts of intonation structure in English and some other languages. These accounts share the assumption that the system of tones identified by Pierrehumbert (1980), as modified by Pierrehumbert and Beckman (1988) and Silverman et al. (1992), has as transparent and type-driven a semantics in these l

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Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing,Intonational phrasing, however, is less prominently investigated. This paper focuses on intonational phrasing and its contribution to the construction of a discourse representation. I argue that intonational phrasing determines minimal discourse units which serve as the building blocks in a discours

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Book 20071st editionression and role of topicalization and focus from a variety of perspectives: phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. The workshop was designed to lay the groundwork for collaborative efforts between linguists devoted to the study of meaning and linguists engaged in the quantitati